Dimple making appliance



Afig. 31, 1937. E. L-GILBERT 2,091,276

DIMPLE MAKING APPLIANCE Original Filed Jan. 24, 1929 INVENTOR Aw ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 31, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 334,834, January 24, 1929.

This application October 6, 1936, Serial No. 104,345

2 Claims.

The present application is a refile, for my abandoned application filed January 24, 1929, Serial No. 334,834, and goes to an invention relating to dimple making appliances. One object of 5 the invention is to provide a construction which will make its possible to produce dimples in the chin of the user. Another object of the invention is to provide a construction in which dimples may be made simultaneously in the chin and both 1 cheeks. Still another object of the invention is to provide a means of adjusting the cheek dimple producing devices on the supporting means to ob tain different positions and/ or to obtain different pressures on the cheeks of the user.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described; the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view of the under side of one embodiment of an appliance constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the same appliance;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of another embodi ment of the invention; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 44, Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, there is employed a resilient U- 30 shaped or bowed member I having head attachin'g means, in this instance, in the form of two temples 2, pivoted to the ends of the bow.

Supported substantially at the center of the bow is a chin dimple producing device comprising,

5 in this instance, a tapered projection 3 which is held to the bow preferably by providing a lateral loop 4 or bend in the bow, the inner face of which engages a shoulder 5 on the projection screw 6 and passes through the loop and into the shoul 40 dered end of the dimple producing device, the screw being surrounded by a washer l which abuts the outer face of the loop. This arrangement permits the dimple producing device to be removed at will.

For supporting the devices 8 for producing the cheek dimples, the bow is provided on opposite sides with a plurality of laterally projecting loops 9 arranged alternately on opposite sides of the bar and forming recesses l0. Two carriers H in the 50 form of nuts having surrounding grooves I2 are forced into the recesses on opposite sides of the bow and are held in said recess by frictional engagement between the parts. Through these nuts pass screws I 3 which have at their outer ends 55 finger pieces [4, their inner ends being secured rigidly to the dimple producing devices 8. By this arrangement each carrier 1 I with its dimple producing device may be removed at will or fitted in any other one of the recesses l0 so as to position the dimple producing device properly with ref erence to the point where the dimple is to be made. The alternate arrangement of the loops makes it possible substantially to position the dimple producing device at any point between the ends of the series of alternately arranged loops. The adjustment of the screw in the carrier permits the pressure on the cheek to be varied.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the bow member l has a head attaching device in the form of an elastic band 2 secured to the ends of the bow. The chin dimple producing device 4 is secured to the center of the bow in the same manner as the other embodiment.

The devices 8 for producing the cheek dimples are constructed in the same manner as the chin dimple producing device illustrated in Fig. 4. These devices 8 are supported adjustably on opposite sides of the bow by bending from the ends of the stock of which the bow member is formed, two portions 9 running parallel with the bow member to provide at the opposite ends of the bow member two longitudinally extending loops enlarged at their outer ends at 13 so as to form portions for engagement by the ends of the elastic band 2 The inner ends of the portions 9 are secured to the main portion of the bow to support said portion 9 in parallel relation to the bow. The shoulder 5 on each dimple producing device l3 engages the upper and the lower arms of a loop on the inner faces thereof, whereas the outer face of the loop arms are engaged by a washer 1. The loops permit the devices for producing the chin dimples to be shifted or adjusted along the bow to position properly such devices on the cheeks.

In both embodiments of the invention, the chin dimple producing device is supported at an intermediate portion of a bow which preferably also supports two devices for producing dimples in the checks. The chin dimple producing device is removable so that the devices for producing the cheek dimples may be used alone, and vice versa. The devices for producing the cheek dimples are adjustable along the bow and in one embodiment are also adjustable transversely of the bow to obtain the desired pressure. This device not only has a tendency to produce dimples but it tends to lift the face and remove wrinkles.

What is claimed is:

1. In a dimple producing appliance, a bow prosides of the bow and forming inwardly directed recesses arranged one behind the other, head attaching means connected to the ends of the bow, a grooved recess-engaging member consisting of a nut and fitted in one of the said recesses and frictionally engaging the bow and held against movement longitudinally of the same by the walls of the said recess, a dimple forming device, and a screw passing through the nut and connecting the dimple forming device with the said 10 member and adjustable through the same.

EVANGELINE I. GILBERT. 

